10. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (G-Cube)-Perhaps one of the less conventional choices, I loved Thousand Year Door for its flavor, its story, and gameplay all rolled into one. The game was brilliantly executed. If some of you haven't played this yet, I strongly recommend you do so.

9. Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast (PC) A Star Wars game, and an entertaining one nonetheless. In addition to the incredibly entertaining storyline, JK2's saber combat in this one makes you just feel powerful. I recently went back and played through the entire game again on Master difficulty (hardest). The challenge simply added to the entertainment. There's good weapon balance, the multiplayer is challenging, and the name character shares my first name

8. Fire Emblem 7 (GBA)-The first FE to be released into North America under just the title "Fire Emblem," I immediately loved the gameplay, and FE7 had a great story. Yes, the other FE games are of note as well, but this one stands out as my fave. I'm currently hacking the game, so that alone should be a pretty good indicator of how much I enjoy it.

7. Starcraft (PC)-One of my favorites simply because it's one I grew up on, although there are a lot of RTS out there I think are better. I don't play hardcore and can't handle the multiplayer online (like with everything else), but I main the Protoss pretty well. This game deserves mention for its epic 2 v 2s when my friends brought their laptops and one particular 1 v 3 I managed to win with a slim victory.

6. Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)-I love Brawl as a go-to game when I have two or three friends over, and while I can get bored of it after a couple hours, it still has never bored me on the long term. In Melee I mained Link and Doctor Mario. In Brawl I main Lucario and Marth. Ganon's one of my favorites in both, although not nearly my best.

5. Black and White (PC)-For those of you who've never heard of it, the premise is playing God in a polytheistic world. The sequel was alright as well, but to me there's no comparison. I can't quite explain how awesome it is to teach your creature Explosion Extreme and just letting it completely destroy everything through giant beams of death. Omnipotence is fun!

4. Command and Conquer Generals & Zero Hour (PC)- If I could I'd give #3 to the whole series. The Tiberium games and Generals have been my favorite, but that's mostly cause I've played Red Alert a lot less. Renegade, the series' one FPS, is also of note. Generals and the expansion Zero Hour, while unusual in C&C terms, are actually one of my all-time favorite and most proficient games. I grew to use the Airforce and infantry Generals like a boss. So out of these, I actually give Zero Hour the #3 spot.

3. Star Wars Battlefront 2 (PC)-Battlefield, Star Wars style. An odd choice, but this stands out as my favorite shooter of all time. I played with all my friends but one in particular deserves mention, because there was a long period in which all our battles were intense and completely memorable. See I play as the sharpshooters but, in addition to sniping, use them as normal soldiers, dodging around and no-scoping people in the face, occasionally switching to my pistol to finish the job (that or going for the precision pistol.) My friend, on the other hand, played all rockets. Completely the opposite of my style. As I got better at no-scoping I began to overtake him, but there was a long while where we were really even, and every battle was intense. I've had so many memories with this game, and almost wanted to put it first, but...

2. Civilization 4 (PC)- I've basically grown up on these games, and again would list the whole series if possible. For those who don't know, you play as one of history's famous leaders, including Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, or even Joseph Stalin, and lead their respective empires towards domination, whether by conquest, culture, landing a spacecraft on Alpha Centauri, or some other means. I once modded the game, creating custom civilizations for myself and my friends, complete with unique units and leaders. One of my favorite games ever had me (as Genghis Khan I think) come back from near defeat following a nuclear winter to win on Emperor (one of the three times I've won on Emperor. Normally I play Monarch). The instigator of the nuke war? GANDHI

1. Homeworld (PC)-These games are pure golden. Homeworld is a real-time 3D space combat RTS. The most beautiful RTS I've ever played, and IMO the most strategic. Homeworld 1 is my favorite game hands-down, for both its gameplay and its story, though Homeworld 2 is where my multiplayer excels. I've modded Homeworld 2 and know that game inside and out. I've had several epic games, including near-death close calls with great comebacks that I remember fondly. There are so many games I've played in HW2 that stand out as some of my greatest gaming memories.

Quaetman wrote:1. Homeworld (PC)-These games are pure golden. Homeworld is a real-time 3D space combat RTS. The most beautiful RTS I've ever played, and IMO the most strategic. Homeworld 1 is my favorite game hands-down, for both its gameplay and its story, though Homeworld 2 is where my multiplayer excels. I've modded Homeworld 2 and know that game inside and out. I've had several epic games, including near-death close calls with great comebacks that I remember fondly. There are so many games I've played in HW2 that stand out as some of my greatest gaming memories.

I really liked this game, although the single player got a TAD boring for me after a while. I didn't try multiplayer much; my family disliked the game, and I played online once to get yelled at for my newbishness and then I just got destroyed (as a young child, I hadn't learned how to handle this quite yet).

I never tried HW2, but I adored the ease of 3-dimensional movement. My favorite thing to do was just to send a bunch of ships into a firefight, and then 3rd-person view a single ship as it flew through a frenzy of lasers, explosions, and bullets.

6. The Legend of Zelda: OOT, ALTTP, TP and MM - All four of these Zelda games are incredible. I couldn't pick between them.

7. Resident Evil 4 - I'm not a big Resident Evil fan, but this is an amazing game. RE5 was awesome too, but I don't think it could replicate the perfection of RE4.

8. Donkey Kong Country series - Especially DKC2. Awesome games, and while you're at it, you may as well add DK64, Banjo 1 and Tooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day in with this one.

9. Oblivion and Fallout 3 - I love both these RPGs. I couldn't pick between the two with much accuracy, but off the top of my head, I probably prefer Fallout 3. I need to play Morrowind some time, cause I heard its even better than Oblivion.

10. Super Smash Bros series - All three are incredible games. People argue over this a lot, but all three are awesome.

Props to the people who mentioned Pikmin 2 and Black & White, both are awesome and underappreciated classics.

Wtf? Since when is "the difficult level" a problem? And who cares if they changed the sprites from Doki Doki Panic? That's not a flaw. And who the hell is "Mergaman"?

It is when you only have 3 days. I don't like games that force you to rush. I like to enjoy the game and take my time and it is a lot harder to do that when you have a timer. If they left that out I would not have a problem with any of that stuff.

It is a flaw to me because it showed how lazy they were taking a already lousy game and putting mario in it.

I take it you don't like Pikmin (1) either then? I know someone just like you if that's the case. Still, I think Majora's Mask's time limit is very long, and I've never really had to rush except on the Anju and Kafei quest. If you like to explore, Majora's Mask isn't bad for that either, since every time you reset everything comes back, making exploration more fresh.

Doki Doki Panic isn't really a "lousy" game by any means. Even if you don't like it, its not exactly poorly made. I don't see why putting Mario in it makes them lazy. And it's never led to anything bad. Think of all the things it brought to the Mario franchise (Shy Guys, Birdo, Luigi's jumping characteristics, Peach's jumping characteristics, etc)

Actually I did not like it in the past. But I bought it recently and enjoyed it on the wii. Took me a long time to find the ship parts but then again that was when I was younger. Now it is not so bad and I got all the parts by day 20 I believe. OK so I guess it is time to at least try out MM again and see if anything is different like with Pikmin.

But the 2 main places that time fucked me over was that tower where you needed to use the clones to hold the switch down so you can climb the tower(HATED that part almost as much as the water temple in OoT.) And the water temple in it.(Why is it always water that is the most bitchy!?)

OK maybe not lousy but I really did not like the game play. Also that always raised a question with me. If Mario is the jump man. Why the fuck can Luigi jump higher. lol Luigi should have the title jump man. Since you know. Luigi>Mario.

Lol I never really played the lost levels that much and when I did I always picked Luigi so I could not compare.

Isn't that the one with the 3 bone guy bosses? Where you needed to burn the curtain? If so I had a good time messing with them when I was younger.

Like the jumping was weird even for a mario game. Felt like they were on the moon it took so long for him to come down. Also killed me a lot.Having to pick up the enemies to kill them.That mother fucking mouser and Wart(Seriously. His own room gives off vegetables that he has trouble eating.)How hard it was to get extra lives And what the fuck was up with that bird head?Also it being a dream. (I really do not like stuff like that.)

Alright cool. Then again, its not for everyone I guess. Just remember to use the Inverted Song of Time as much as possible so your time limit doubles. You might find it more fun then.

I may be a bit biased with SMB2 cause I've never played the NES version. Maybe the 1-up thing really is a problem in that one. I always play the SNES version. But yeah, the trick I was talking about, you just ricochet a shell off two walls and stand on it, and every time it kills an enemy you get more points until it makes 1-ups. But I think it only works in the GBA version like I said.

He's such a goddamn warmonger in Civ it's not even funny. I rage whenever he comes up as an opponent because you just know you'll spend most of the game fending off his attacks.

Strangely though I've discovered I prefer playing in the easier settings because the bit I like the most is building up and micromanaging my empire. Plus the computer cheats at high levels, which drives me mad because it's artificial difficulty. It's like getting ready for a fist fight and rather than your opponent being someone with your weight and height it's a toddler with a gatling gun.

Imagine my joy when I discovered in the new Colonization remake I could turn off other Europeons. Hooray, now I can flood the markets with cheap tobacco and steal Indian land without the bloody Dutch spamming me with pirates!

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Viero wrote:It is when you only have 3 days. I don't like games that force you to rush. I like to enjoy the game and take my time and it is a lot harder to do that when you have a timer. If they left that out I would not have a problem with any of that stuff.

I see where you're coming from, but I never felt rushed after you learn the song of slow time (or whatever it was. Doubled the day length).

The only thing that DID annoy me was that after defeating a temple and then restarting the day cycle, everything was back to how it was. The second temple became snowy again, and I worked hard to prevent that!

Xiaping wrote:Ya know, I didn't really think Wind Waker would be on so many peoplez lists...

We are not Zelda Leetists/purists.

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Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was definitely the best 3D Sonic game. It was some fun platforming (grinding just looked hella cool, too), and the chao aspect was extremely addictive. Multiplayer was also very fun.

Outlaw wrote:Yea, I liked that game too. But now that I play it. I think it is just childish and I cringe at a lot of it while playing. I just can't play it anymore.

Ok, Miss Morgan Webb.

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